Carpet-stretcher



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BMR. JONES GARPETSTRBTGHER. No. 334,665. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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ROBERT E. JONES, OF BLOSSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-ST RETCH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,665, dated January 19, 1886.

Application filed April 10, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT R. J ONES, residing in Blossburg, in the county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved CarpetStretc-her, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation, partly in section, of my improved carpet-stretcher. Fig. 2 is a plan view with a part broken away to more clearly show the construction.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective carpet-stretcher which may be operated by one person, and the use of which will not mar the wall or base-board nor injure the carpet.

My invention consists in a bar having at one end a spurto be driven intothe floor, and provided with pulleys, a lever, and a rope, and in the combination therewith of asliding crosshead carrying pointed teeth or hooks for engaging the carpet.

The bar A is provided at one end-with a spur, B, to be driven into the floor near the baseboard, and in mortises in the said bar are pivoted the sheaveO D and the lever E. The lever E is located near the spur B, the sheave D is placed near the fulcrum of the lever E, and the sheave C is located in the end of the bar A remote from the spur B. A transverse bar, F, provided with pointed hooked teeth a, is placed below the bar A, and provided with a metallic loop, G, which surrounds the top and sides of the said bar A, and forms a relation to the bar A as it is moved along in the operation of stretching carpet. An eye, b, projects from the side of the bar F toward the spurB and receivesa cord, H, which passes forward under the sheave D; thence over it,

through the mortise in the bar A, under the Serial No. 161,822. (No model.)

sheave O; thence over it and through an apei tnre, a, in the lever E; thence upward to ahook d, projecting from the edge of the lever 15 In the side of the bar A are formed severa inclined holes, e, for receiving a hook, I, p'iv oted to the bar F.

The operation of my improved carpe stretcherisasfollows: ThespurBbeingdrive: into the floor near the base-board, the cross bar F is moved toward the outer end of th bar A, and its hooks are entered into the car pet, when a forward movement of the love E toward the spur B will, through the cord H move the cross-bar F forward, and when i has been drawn as far as desired the hook I ii inserted in one of the holes e, which retain: the cross-bar in the position into which it i: drawn by the lever E, when the carpet may b1 nailed.

If desired, when the carpet is drawn forwarr' and retained by the hook I the loop on tln lever end of the rope H may be detached fron the hook dandplaced upon the hookf, near thr upper end of the lever, thereby allowing thr lever to be held out of the way to permit 0. nailing the edge of the carpet.

Having thus fully described myinvention,l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, in a carpet stretcher, of a mortised bar having a spur in one end, two sheaves and a lever journaled in the mortises of the said bar, a transverse crossbar carrying pointed hooks, and a rope extending around the sheaves and connecting the crossbar with the lever, as herein specified.

2. In a carpet-stretcher, the combination, with the actuating-lever E and rope H, of the hooks d f, projecting from the said lever E, as herein described.

ROBERT R. JONES. 

